12/09/2015
I have loved books for as long as I can remember. In elementary school I read the entire Laura Ingalls Wilder series on repeat until the pages were worn as thin as tissue. In the summers, when Aaron and I were first married, we would take 3 week long trips abroad and I would pack books by the armful to come along for the ride. As I finished them, I would leave them in my wake– on a stone wall along a canal in Bruges, at an outdoor table at a cafe in Paris, in the back seat pocket of a train in Italy. I hoped that they would find an … 
There’s no cliche like a kid cliche, y’all. From the moment your belly starts growing it begins. People tell you, “It will go by so fast!” or “Enjoy every moment! Don’t wish any of it away!”. Then there’s my personal favorite: “The days are long but the years are short!”. You smile and nod politely or give a little laugh and exclaim, “Totally!” It sounds like a broken record because we have all heard it so many times, but that’s because it is SO TRUE! … 
You know how you have these fantasies about how certain moments will go down in your life and then they’re nothing like that? Well, I have dreamed about cooking with my daughter since before I even knew I was having a daughter and have been forcing that moment for quite some time now. It has ended in a coconut oil catastrophe which proved really hard to fully clean off of our tile floors and lots of pasta flung to far off destinations and yet I still let her crack our eggs open every morning. (Please try to imagine her chubby … 
I never thought I would say this, but now that we’ve completed our master bathroom, I’m kind of missing all of the home improvement projects! The last four years of home ownership have been filled with tasks like replacing our sprinkler systems to updating our kitchen and everything in between. Now our place kind of feels complete and I’m finding myself with an itch to scratch. When my friend Kate began talking about wanting to do something with her master bedroom I jumped at the chance to get my hands on that room! … 
